Pierre Nanterme Quotes
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
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In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.
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A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.
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I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.
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Spying on our citizens? That's just wrong.
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All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.
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What's important is that, when you're tested, you stand firm against the violent activities of those who would try to plunge our people back into the misery of the past.
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Even in mature economies, digital's benefits to society are substantial.
